Command Entry Rules and Syntax

Using the CLI

 

 

 

 

Using “Show” Commands

The CLI contains show commands that allow you to view configuration and switch status on your console screen. The show syntax is used with other command keywords to display information pertaining to those keywords.

For example, the show vlan command displays a table of all VLANs currently configured, along with pertinent information about each VLAN. Different forms of the show vlan command can be used to display different subsets of VLAN information. For example the show vlan rules command displays all rules defined for a VLAN.

Using the “No” Form

The OmniSwitch CLI Reference Guide defines all CLI commands and explains their syntax. Whenever a command has a “no” form, it is described on the same page as the original command. The “no” form of a command will mean one of the following:

•It can remove the configuration created by a command. For example, you create a VLAN with the vlan command, and you delete a VLAN with the no vlan command.

•It can reset a configuration value to its default. For example, you configure the time interval that the switch will use to remove a multicast stream from a port with the ip multicast leave-timeoutcommand. You set the interval back to its default value with the ip multicast no leave-timeoutcommand.

Using “Alias” Commands

You may define substitute text for the switch’s CLI commands by using the alias command. There are two main reasons for defining aliases.

•You can eliminate excess typing by reducing the number of characters required for a command.

To reduce the number of characters required to use the group term in a CLI command, you can change the syntax to gp as follows:

-> alias gp group

•You can change unfamiliar command words into familiar words or patterns.

If you prefer the term “privilege” to the term “attribute” with reference to a login account’s read-write capabilities, you can change the CLI word from attrib to privilege by using the following command.

-> alias privilege attrib

After an alias has been defined, both the alias and the original CLI term will be supported as valid CLI terms. For example if privilege is defined as an alias as shown above, both privilege and attrib will work as CLI commands and both words are shown when you use the CLI help feature.

You can save command aliases for the current user account by executing the user profile save command. If the aliases are not saved they will be stored until the user session ends. In this case, once you log off the switch, substitute terms configured with the alias command are destroyed.

To display aliases, use the show alias command. To set all alias values back to their factory defaults, use the user profile reset command.

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